Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople

Speaker: Mirela Ivanova
Moderator: Nick Evans
Date & Time: 06 May 2025, Tuesday, 18:00
Location: ANAMED Library

ANAMED Library Talks continue on May 6 with Mirela Ivanova and Nick Evans. The talk is entitled “Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople.”

This talk will assess the contemporary significance of the invention of the Slavonic letters in eastern Europe and the consequences this has had for the (academic and other) readings of our medieval texts. It will then seek to propose a new reading of the two hagiographies which provide us with the earliest narrative accounts of the invention of the script in the ninth century, the Life of Constantine-Cyril and the Life of Methodios, and with it a new social and political history of this fragile act of invention.

Nick Evans will be the moderator of the talk. This month's talk will be online.